[Asterisk-Users] festival voices

[Brian West]

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'linux16audio)
;(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'esdaudio)
;(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'mplayeraudio)
;(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'sunaudio)

; American female I'm using the cepstral frank with festival ;)
(set! voice_default 'voice_frank)


in /root/.festivalrc

bkw


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Tony Buser wrote:

> Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> >try adding a set of parens like this:
> >
> >festivalcommand=((voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk
> >"%s"'file)(quit))\n
> >
> >
> >
>
> Unfortunately that results in the following error  at the asterisk console:
> Feb 12 19:45:27 WARNING[409626]: app_festival.c:437 festival_exec:
> Festival returned ER
>
> And the following error in the festival_server:
> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : don_diphone
> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : \n
>
> >Have you seen "festivox"?  It's a tool for building voices
> >
> >The key to making festival sound natural is to get the
> >timming and entonation right.  The astrisk app uses festivels
> >"demo" test to speech application which is just that a
> >quick dirty demo.
> >
> >Have you seen the markup language on the CMU site?
> >http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html
> >"Sable" can do MUCH better then the simple tts application.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks, I'll take a look at that.  So to use Sable I'd have to use
> festival from like an AGI script and not inside the Festival() function
> in extension.conf?  I blindly tried pasting sable markup in there and
> the best I could do was get it to read back the markup and all.  :)
>
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